A generally rectangular housing having a substantially thicker dimension than conventional playing cards has its thickness obscured by the use of angled facets along the upper and lower portions of each surrounding edge. The top portion of the playing card defines a rotating panel which is rotatably movable within the surrounding housing between alternate positions separated by one hundred eighty degrees. A spring and lock mechanism allows the rotating panel to be rotated against the spring force to a first position and locked in that first position. With the rotating panel in its first position, the exposed top surface of the panel is generally coextensive with the upper surface of the housing causing the apparatus to appear to be a planar trading card. The under surface of the rotating panel supports a collapsed three-dimensional figure. The figure itself comprises a plurality of spring biased joints which are latched in their compacted position against the spring forces within the joints.
